I am so bummed. They announced in an article on released today at the beginning of the Cambridge tour of Australia and NZ, that there won't be any tiara events. Booo!!
But did she ever look stunning getting off the plane with the NZ brooch given to the Queen back in 1953. Gorgeous. I don't know how to post a picture of it, but on her red coat, it looked stunning.

The buttons and the broach together were ok for me. But I wonder if the broach on the hat would have been more attractive as suggested by a previous poster. The Queen uses her broaches that way sometimes.

I had thought wearing the brooch on the hat might have been a good idea and would have looked lovely, but on second thought it is a significant piece and should have been worn on her coat where it would be seen more clearly. Unfortunately, there was too much competing on the coat for the brooch to stand out.

__________________A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd..... D.H. Lawrence

Maybe the collar may have been a better location to situate the brooch away from the buttons. As another poster mentioned, it's too bad the coat's designer didn't have the brooch in mind when adding those buttons.

__________________A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd..... D.H. Lawrence